WIDOW MAKER LESION
I cath a patient with chest pain today as an emergency. The patient asked: “What did you find, doc?” I said ” I found a narrowing in the big artery that goes to the front of your heart”.
He said: “You mean the widow maker lesion”
I said: “No Sir, it used to be called the widow maker lesion.
Now it called the New Husband Maker Lesion”
It made him laugh.
SICK SINUS SYNDROME:
Today a elderly cardiac patient asked me if the metoprolol he is taking will affect his sick sinus syndrome. I was a bit surprised. I said it certainly can do that and slow the heart rate. He said ” Doc, then I should not be on it!” “But” I said. “How do you know you have sick sinus syndrome?” He remarked: ” I have had sinuses for a long time and I read on the internet that metaprolol should not be taken if you have sick sinuses”
(Amin H. Karim MD)
GlobeMedic 